Re: DevFS vs. udev

Witukind
2003-12-24T11:33:57Z

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 03:41:21 +0000
viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 06:38:20PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > And yes, there are architectural/cleanliness issues with devfs. In
> > 2.5 Adam Richter totally reinventing devfs's internals, basing it
> > around the ramfs infrastructure. If we elect to retain devfs in 2.8
> > then that effort should be resurrected.
>
> Switching internals to ramfs won't be enough, though. There are
> problems with devfs API that can't be solved by work on internals -
> lifetime rules for devfs nodes make no sense. Take a look at the
> insertion/removal primitives and think of the lifetime rules they
> create for directories and user-created nodes. _That_ is independent
> from the way you implement the internals (and sanitized version of the
> interface won't fit into use of ramfs, BTW).

What's the difference that prevents Linux from having a "good" devfs since
FreeBSD is happy with this feature?

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